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I am making pencil drawings from the microscope. I need to turn them into black-and-white line drawings for publication.
What I have been doing is:
1. Scan the pencil drawings.
2. Resize the scanned pencil drawing to make it fit the final illustration.
3. Create a new transparent layer.
4. Put the transparent layer above the layer with the scan of the pencil drawing.
5. Make only the transparent layer and the layer with the scanned pencil drawing visible.
6. Increase the viewing size of the image to 1000%.
7. Spend hours very carefully drawing new black lines on the transparent layer matching the scanned pencil drawing below it.
The results are beautiful, but the process is very slow and laborious. Is there an easier, quicker way the trace pencil drawings in Photoshop?
Joe Kirkbride
What I have been doing is:
1. Scan the pencil drawings.
2. Resize the scanned pencil drawing to make it fit the final illustration.
3. Create a new transparent layer.
4. Put the transparent layer above the layer with the scan of the pencil drawing.
5. Make only the transparent layer and the layer with the scanned pencil drawing visible.
6. Increase the viewing size of the image to 1000%.
7. Spend hours very carefully drawing new black lines on the transparent layer matching the scanned pencil drawing below it.
The results are beautiful, but the process is very slow and laborious. Is there an easier, quicker way the trace pencil drawings in Photoshop?
Joe Kirkbride
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